{"id":10233,"date":"2016-10-14T11:17:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T15:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fescenter.org\/?p=10233"},"modified":"2024-01-27T16:07:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T16:07:09","slug":"brain-chips-let-a-paralyzed-man-feel-touch-through-a-robotic-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/2016\/10\/14\/brain-chips-let-a-paralyzed-man-feel-touch-through-a-robotic-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain chips let a paralyzed man feel touch through a robotic arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Copeland hasn\u2019t been able to move his legs or hands since he broke his neck in a car accident more than a decade ago. But now that scientists have implanted four chips in his brain, Copeland can control a robotic arm with his mind and feel when someone touches its fingers<em>. <\/em>This is the first time that a neural implant has allowed a person to feel touch through a prosthetic by directly stimulating his brain.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/10\/13\/13269824\/brain-implant-chip-feel-touch-robot-arm-paralyzed-tetraplegia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read full story&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Copeland hasn\u2019t been able to move his legs or hands since he broke his neck in a car accident more than a decade ago. But now that scientists have implanted four chips in his brain, Copeland can control a robotic arm with his mind and feel when someone touches its fingers. This is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fes","category-neural-interface","category-prosthetics","category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28271,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233\/revisions\/28271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}